plugin: sftp transport

[John A Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 19/10/05, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>
>>Martin Pool wrote:
>>
>>>If it's OK with you I'm going to make this a builtin transport.
>>>People will still need to have paramiko to actually use it.
>>
>>I'm concerned that you put sftp support into the core without actually
>>adding test cases for it. (This shouldn't be very difficult)
>
>
> I know, I normally wouldn't have but Robert twisted my arm.

I thought Robert was the one who advocated "test driven programming".

>
>
>>Also, you have it require paramiko, which means that you can't even run
>>bzr anymore.
>>
>>The exception really should be such that if it can't load the sftp code,
>>that it at most gives a warning and continues.
>
>
> I think that's the current behaviour, but there was an earlier
> revision where it did fail.  The current one only loads the transport
> when it's needed and so won't complain about paramiko until you try to
> use an sftp url.

You might go back and check Robey's updates. It seems he even has set up
a loopback sftp server (like our fake http server).

John
=:->

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> Martin
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